The West's tradition of free speech and expression creates possibilities of human betterment. It is not that those thoughts will have to be true but the very capacity to think on new lines keeps the human evolution happening. In India, can we be that much brave?Aug 2, 2017

Following the decision, the benchmark repo rate stands reduced to six percent from 6.25 percent. Accordingly, the reverse repo rate has been pegged down to 5.75 percent from previous six percent.Aug 2, 2017

The Ministry of Electronics and IT has appointed an expert group to draft legislation on data protection even as the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether right to privacy is a fundamental right.Aug 2, 2017

The Modi government would have two issues to meet. One, to find new faces for key ministries that have fallen vacant. And second, to find responsibility for new parties that have or will join NDA soon. The second task will be something new for 'polarising' Modi.Aug 2, 2017

As per an ADR report, the new JD(U)-NDA government in Bihar has more number of tainted ministers than it was in the grand alliance govt. What improvement did then the chief minister make by dumping RJD?Aug 2, 2017

The Congress made it easy for the opponents to kill two birds with one stone by gathering its Gujarat legislators in Karnataka, its last big state. It would have politically benefited by taking the MLAs to say Kolkata, instead.Aug 2, 2017

Dev, who passed away on August 2 after a prolonged illness, had agreed to take charge of the heavy industries ministry in 2004 only after extracting assurance from former PM Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi that there would be no second MoS in his ministry.Aug 2, 2017